Dueling falafel stands short jump starts career

February 14, 2007 Sandel's film, "West Bank Story," is a 22-minute musical that takes a humorous look at the tensions between Israelis and their Palestinian neighbors without taking sides. The film's setting is the fast-food world of dueling falafel stands in the West Bank, one owned by singing and dancing Israelis and the other owned by singing and dancing Palestinians. They're both selling lots of hummus, but as the plot thickens an Israeli soldier and a beautiful Palestinian cashier fall in love.

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